Courses@dordt

1. Online learning that compliments face-to-face teaching Courses@dordt

2. Benefits • Provides 24/7 accessibility to course materials and grades • More efficient use of student’s time

3. Benefits Flexibility for students to pursue education anywhere, anytime

4. Benefits Gives professors the opportunity: • To rethink and redesign a course • To fit the blended teaching format

5. Benefits • Accessible to special needs students • Accessible to adult learners with small children • Respects diverse talents and ways of learning

6. Benefits • Provides a uniform format for students and faculty • Easy for students to access grades and assignments

7. Benefits • Students can view and review course material and grades without contacting the TA or instructor

8. Who should use courses@dordt • Visual learners • Day learners • Night learners • Students who need more reinforcement

9. Types of Information to Post • Post assigned documents • Post assignments • Post syllabus • Insert material from a textbook CD • Post e-reserves • Insert an announcement

10. Types of Activities • Add a Choice (a mini poll) • Add a Discussion Board • Add an online Quiz • Add a online Survey • Add a Chat room • Create a Wiki

11. Types of Resources • Add Grades • Add PowerPoint • Add Art images • Add audio files for music and language • Add video files • Add URLs • Archive your course

12. Discussion Board • Equal opportunity for everyone-not just the quick, articulate students who dominate a classroom • Some students are more reflective and are more comfortable expressing themselves online

13. Discussion Board • Use as a tutorial • Provide instructor feedback to students • Link discussion to course goals

14. Discussion Board • Students can share drafts of written work with the instructor or peers for review and suggestions • Students can discuss concepts together • Students who live off campus can be included in projects

15. Discussion Board • Build Groups (8 is the recommended size) • Develop a sense of group that will sustain them through a course • Extend class time by assigning students additional topics to consider

16. Surveys • Assessments (Survey) • Allows instructors to build and compile course information • Frequent assessment provides concept reinforcement • Increases motivation

17. Surveys • Helps identify student misconceptions or difficulty with course material • Frees up class time

18. Gradebook • Display grades to students • Display grades by points • Display letter grades • Display percent • Display in categories

19. Gradebook • Grades can be hidden • Instructors can manually edit grades • A hard copy of the grades can be printed • Grades can be downloaded by the Professor

20. Activity Logs • Instructors can track the usage of content • Logs can track the participation of your students • All forum posts can be tracked for each student

21. Assignments • Advanced Uploading of files (an interactive exchange of files between a professor and his students) • Online Text (provides the student with a text box in which to type their response) • Upload a single file (file is submitted electronically) • Offline (assignment is submitted in class)

22. Instructors • Instructors can mark a course unavailable for a semester • Instructors can archive tests and quizzes

23. courses@dordt A tool to enhance classroom teaching • http://courses.dordt.edu • Login using your Groupwise password and user name

24. Support Sandy Reitsma sreitsma@dordt.edu Telephone:712.722.6044 Help Desk Telephone: 712.722.6299 Computer Services